Call for nominations for the 2005 FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the GNU Project announce
the request for nominations for the 2005 FSF Award for the Advancement
of Free Software. This award is presented to a person who has made a
great contribution to the progress and development of free software,
through activities that accord with the spirit of software freedom (as
defined in the Free Software
Definition).

Last year's winner, Theo de Raadt, was recognized for his work as
founder and project leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects. Theo
joined a prestigious list of previous winners including Alan Cox,
Miguel de Icaza, Larry Lessig, Brian Paul, Guido van
Rossum, and Larry Wall.

Any kind of activity could be eligible -- writing software,
writing documentation, publishing CDs, journalism -- but whatever the
activity, we want to recognize long-term central contributions to the
development of the world of software freedom. "Accord with the spirit"
means, for example, that software, manuals, or collections of them
(online or on CD), must be entirely free. Work done commercially is
eligible, but we give this award to individuals, not to companies,
organizations, or teams.

Previous winners of this award as well as Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Donald Knuth, are not eligible for nomination,
but renomination of other previous nominees is encouraged. From those who
are eligible, the award committee will try to choose the person who
has made the greatest contribution.